Hamlet in the theater has brought out a knife to stab himself, until he thinks of a
prohibition by God against suicide: ― Or ... for permission to die now: ― O God!
God! How weary! stale! flat! and unprofitable! Seem to me all the uses of thisworld!

Perhaps it was true of all thinking, that it was really a dialogue. ... meant
something new, something curtly dismissive, laden with abrupt self -disgust. O
God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses ofthis world.

I shall in all my best obey you, madam. KING Why, 'tis ... O that this too too solid
flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had
not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat,and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an
unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess
it merely.

Listen to Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve
itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had ... O God! How weary, stale, flat, andunprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on't! O fie!'tis an unweeded
...

... and I have only to say in my defence, that if I have sinned, I have sinned in
good company. HAMLET, ACT 1. SCENE 2. God! O God! How weary, stale, flatand unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! PizARRo, ACT 1.
SCENE 1.

The piety of our present licenser, however, will reform all this, and I have only to
say in my defence, that if I have sinned, ... Hami.et, Act 1. Scene 2. "God.'O God! " How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable " Seem to me all the uses of this world !

10172 The Comedy of Errors I to the world am like a drop of water That in the
ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling ... O God! How weary, stale, flat, andunprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. 10190 Hamlet Frailty, thy
name is ...

In direct comparison with his modes of composition in the sonnets, Shakespeare
used an irregularly regular iambic pentameter in his plays for ... O God, O God, How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!

And in times less good, Hamlet's words find a deep resonance in us: O, that this
too too solid flesh would melt, thaw, and ... O God! O God! How weary', stale, flat,and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't! O fie! 'Us an ...